After Prince Hal gallantly took his clothes off for important plot reasons in The Hollow Crown this week, I thought he might like to try making a career out of it…
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Unable to wait for next week’s instalment of The Hollow Crown, I jumped in my time machine and travelled back to late 16th-century London to find out what happens next. Imagine how surprised I was to find THIS pinned to the door of the Globe Theatre!
It seems that entitled author hissy-fits are not as recent an invention as you might have thought…
Inspired by Henry IV, Part 1, here’s a helping of anachronistic silliness from the privy wall at the Boar’s Head Tavern. The otter is mentioned in Act 3, Scene 3, and the beaver is from Act 4, Scene 1.
In other news, Tom Hiddleston can lie on my kitchen floor in a haze of leather-clad sherry-soaked debauchery any time he wants.
Before the world explodes in a hormonal daze over the more Hiddleston-centric instalments of The Hollow Crown, can we talk about the monument to glowering manhood that was James Purefoy in Richard II? Too bad to live; too hot to be exiled.
